When the two Iranian F-4 fighter planes flew over Saudi Arabian
territorial waters last week, they seemed to set the stage for yet
another attack on a tanker doing business with Iran's sworn enemy,
Iraq. But this time the story was different: the planes were
intercepted by two Saudi F-15 fighters firing air-to-air missiles. One,
and possibly both, of the Iranian planes was shot down. A short time
later, Iran sent eleven more F-4s into the skies over the Persian Gulf.
Again,...